It seems ominous and terrible with what intensity the destructive spirit of the nineties of the last century is present in the rhetoric and political narratives both in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the region. Although things are apparently not completely like that, the steps taken by various actors within the country and environment, with their basic lines, although somewhat more made up, but no less threatening and disgusting, seem as if nothing has changed in the last three decades. It is as if the proclaimed goals that led Yugoslavia to brutal collapse and disintegration, and its people to large-scale crimes, were not abandoned in any sense. It seems that the spirit of the nineties was only temporarily asleep, it was suffocated by external pressures, somehow sapped and thwarted, so that now, as global conditions change, starting with the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the same dark shifts that have brought us and led to the blood and gore of the last decade of the twentieth century. In other words, if at some point in the past it may have seemed that things and relationships were moving in the direction of normalizing life and opportunities, now, in the new constellation of forces, it acts as an absolute retrograde return to all those unresolved conflicts with which we are not right. time and faced in the right way.
Returning to the repertoire of conflicts over crime, guilt and territorial pretensions clearly tells us that in the time of some kind of peace, nothing was done that was truly based on the desire to exist in the region of the former common country without tearing and disturbing each other. In other words, the goals of war were disguised in the guise of peace, so that as soon as new conditions were created, they would be overthrown and reactivated. Widespread actions are now being taken, supported by various global actors, which aim to bring unrest and calculate the possibilities of new territorial fragmentation and displacement. The mentioned issue of coping remains as a fundamental stumbling block that once again hangs over our heads. Everything that has been done for reconciliation and rapprochement is of such a fragile nature that it is enough just to move a few pieces on the ever-hot board of the Western Balkans and then everything starts to collapse once again in that well-known way. Therefore, the absence of a real will not to touch those painful wounds that are still open to us, to further injure them instead of healing them, hangs over us like a dark cloud.
Judging by what we have in action now, it seems that none of the parties who have their own interests here have actually thought at any time that this space should really be made normal one day, without the possibility of any new frictions and attempts to threaten the peace . Leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina in the lurch of Europe, as a dysfunctional country, immersed in ethno-national partitocratic madness, and allowing it to be calculated as a regional currency for bribery and diplomatic trade, remained our biggest misfortune. Preventing the citizens of this country from living their normal lives and existing outside the shackles of fear and manipulation has turned us into a permanently fragile area, with complete uncertainty and anxiety about what the future holds. When I say that, I don't necessarily mean that the current diplomatic actions we are subjected to will necessarily produce confrontations, because the luck of the draw is that there are fewer and fewer of us and we are more and more incompetent, but existing in conditions where suits are constantly being tailored over our heads which do not correspond to our inner being is crushing and frustrating. It is clear that we are so small and powerless by ourselves that it is difficult to resist all those forces that see the interests of this country remaining permanently ruined, with the tendency of its complete collapse, but the fact that we as a community still have not managed to produce not even a minimum of consensus about the reasons for their existence and themselves in this country. Instead of looking for the minimum that connects us, we have allowed ourselves to divide and distance ourselves more and more radically, to function like premature babies in the jaws of great turmoil, without an attitude and without a goal. As such, we are completely at the mercy of those who want BiH, with everything it is, to cease to exist.
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